[RFC] Add mod_delayed_work()

[Gustavo F. Padovan]

Hi,

In the work to move Bluetooth RX processing to workqueues I faced some
issues when trying to move our timers to workqueue, including deadlocks.
We use mod_timer() a lot to reset timer's delay, but the alternative with
workqueues is

	cancel_delayed_work_sync(work);
	queue_delayed_work(wq, work, delay);

This is too much for a simple change in the delay, so I did some research on
this and found that other pieces[0] in the kernel may have the same needs and
cooked a patch to create mod_delayed_work(). I used this name because we
basically call mod_timer there (or queue the work if it is not pending).

Then I propose replace the two lines above with:
	mod_delayed_work(wq, work, delay);

Please comment.

	Gustavo

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/2/3/175	

Gustavo F. Padovan (1):
  workqueue: Add mod_delayed_work()

 include/linux/workqueue.h |    2 ++
 kernel/workqueue.c        |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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1.7.5.1

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